Commentary on the SIOP report?valid informed consent and participative decision making in children with cancer and their parents

2003 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-170
Author(s):  
Sheila M. Farnell
2003 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 244-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
John J. Spinetta ◽  
Giuseppe Masera ◽  
Momcilo Jankovic ◽  
Daniel Oppenheim ◽  
Antonio Gentil Martins ◽  
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2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thaddeus Mason Pope

The legal doctrine of informed consent has overwhelmingly failed to assure that the medical treatment patients get is the treatment patients want. This Article describes and defends an ongoing shift toward shared decision making processes incorporating the use of certified patient decision aids.


2009 ◽  
Vol 66 (7) ◽  
pp. 503-508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Harms ◽  
Christoph H. Kindler

Anästhesisten treffen ihre Patienten häufig in Ausnahmesituationen an, geprägt von Angst und großer Unsicherheit. Selbst zeitlich kurze Kontakte sind daher meist intensiv und bedeutsam. Das persönliche, anästhesiologische Gespräch steht am Beginn der Beziehung von Patient und Anästhesist und soll die geplanten Maßnahmen, welche der Anästhesist durchführen wird, erklären und begleiten. Ein solches Gespräch dauert heute durchschnittlich 20 Minuten. Es beinhaltet die Erhebung der Anamnese, die strukturierte und verständliche Informationsübermittlung zwischen Anästhesist und Patient (inklusive Informationen über die anästhesiologischen Interventionen, Instruktionen zum Verhalten des Patienten und die offene und klare Kommunikation von Vor- und Nachteilen sowie Risiken möglicher Anästhesieverfahren) sowie den professionellen Umgang mit den Emotionen des Patienten, insbesondere seiner präoperativen Angst. Da Patienten heute in der Anästhesiologie vermehrt in den Entscheidungsprozess mit einbezogen werden, entwickelt sich dieses Gespräch zunehmend von einer eher paternalistischen Arzt-Patienten Interaktion zu einer gemeinsamen Entscheidungsfindung, dem so genannten „shared decision making“. Formal sollte das präoperative Gespräch die bekannten Voraussetzungen für eine erfolgreiche Verständigung zwischen Patient und Arzt wie Deutlichkeit, Eindeutigkeit, identische Kodierung, Empathie und Rückmeldung erfüllen und mit dem einholen eines „informed consent“ enden.


2007 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Clifford

This article examines the part that healthcare interpreters play in cross-cultural medical ethics, and it argues that there are instances when the interpreter needs to assume an interventionist role. However, the interpreter cannot take on this role without developing expertise in the tendencies that distinguish general communication from culture to culture, in the ethical principles that govern medical communication in different communities, and in the development of professional relationships in healthcare. The article describes each of these three variables with reference to a case scenario, and it outlines a number of interventionist strategies that could be potentially open to the interpreter. It concludes with a note about the importance of the three variables for community interpreter training. Keywords: community interpreting, informed consent, role of the interpreter, healthcare.


2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 672-683 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mei-Ling Lin ◽  
Chuen-Teng Huang ◽  
Hsien-Hsien Chiang ◽  
Ching-Huey Chen

The practice of respecting patients’ autonomy is rooted in the healthcare professionals’ empathy for patients’ situations, without which appropriate supports to the patients during the informed consent process may be remarkably moderated. The purpose of this study was to explore elective surgery patients’ experiences during their decision-making process. This research was conducted using a phenomenological approach, and the data analysis was guided by Colaizzi’s method. A total of 17 participants were recruited from a hospital in southern Taiwan. Two major themes emerged from the analyses: (a) a voluntary yet necessary alternative—to undergo a surgery and (b) alternatives compelled by the unalterable decision—the surgery. It was concluded that unless healthcare professionals can empathize with the distressed situation of their patients who are facing elective surgery, the practice of informed consent may become merely a routine. Nurses can be the best advocates for patients and facilitators to enhance communication between patients and healthcare personnel.


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (0) ◽  
pp. 233
Author(s):  
Øyvind Ravna

This article deals with the duty to consult indigenous peoples and the obligation to involve these peoples in decision-making processes in matters that concern them. After a general review of international legislation and obligations, particularly the ILO Convention no. 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples, the article focuses on how these obligations are implemented towards the indigenous Sámi in Norwegian law. Here, the consultation agreement from 2005 and the Sámi Rights Committee’s 2007 draft are still central. The review includes an analysis of the extent to which these duties meet international law requirements, and a deliberation on the concept of free, prior and informed consent.


Author(s):  
Jonathan Pugh

Personal autonomy is often lauded as a key value in contemporary Western bioethics, and the claim that there is an important relationship between autonomy and rationality is often treated as an uncontroversial claim in this sphere. Yet, there is also considerable disagreement about how we should cash out the relationship between rationality and autonomy. In particular, it is unclear whether a rationalist view of autonomy can be compatible with legal judgments that enshrine a patient’s right to refuse medical treatment, regardless of whether ‘… the reasons for making the choice are rational, irrational, unknown or even non-existent’. This book brings recent philosophical work on the nature of rationality to bear on the question of how we should understand autonomy in contemporary bioethics. In doing so, the author develops a new framework for thinking about the concept, one that is grounded in an understanding of the different roles that rational beliefs and rational desires have to play in personal autonomy. Furthermore, the account outlined here allows for a deeper understanding of different forms of controlling influence, and the relationship between our freedom to act, and our capacity to decide autonomously. The author contrasts his rationalist account with other prominent accounts of autonomy in bioethics, and outlines the revisionary implications it has for various practical questions in bioethics in which autonomy is a salient concern, including questions about the nature of informed consent and decision-making capacity.


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